Paddymelon: Fruit, compared with large glove

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Other Small Plants

Order:

Vines (Cucurbitales)

Family:

Gourd (Cucurbitaceae)

Species:

Paddymelon (Citrullus colocynthis)

This Photo:

Fruit, compared with large glove

Other name:

Paddy Melon

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
These can grow much larger than shown here. But this is a good comparision between the smooth and prickly paddymelons, as well as a mallee leaf

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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